Dropshipping is an incredibly popular business model for eCommerce stores all over the internet. The simple business model, low cost of entry, and potential for passive income has drawn people to start their own dropshipping business, making the market incredibly competitive.

It can be hard to stand out in such a
saturated market, so you need to take advantage of every tool
available to you. Below are 7 essential WordPress plugins for
Dropshipping stores that will help you attract more customers and
earn more sales.

If you’re dropshipping, AliExpress is
your best friend. Their extensive catalogue, fast processing, and
simple service makes them essential to many dropshipping businesses.
When you’re using AliExpress in WooCommerce, AliDropship Woo is one
of the first WordPress plugins for dropshipping that you need.

With this plugin, you can take most of
the work out of dropshipping by going through the initial setup.
Within the app, you can choose specific products to import that
includes all their information and reviews, automatically price your
products based on supplier costs, and automatically pass orders on to
the supplier for hands-free order fulfillment.

For those who want more control over
their shop, there are tons of options and settings that let you tweak
your shop so that it works perfectly for you.

AliDropship Woo (and the
non-WooCommerce version) are available for a one-time fee that
includes lifetime updates.

The biggest obstacle in becoming a
successful dropshipping store is finding ways to get people to your
store. You need sales to make money, so if you don’t have
customers, you can’t profit.The best long-term marketing strategy
for dropshipping is investing in your search engine optimization
(SEO) – and Yoast SEO makes that easy.

Yoast SEO is a WordPress plugin that
helps you optimize your on-site content for indexing on Google. There
are a variety of factors that come into play when Google decides
whether or not to list you in search results, and Yoast tells you
what you specifically need to address. From meta tags to content
readability to keyword analysis, Yoast SEO helps you get found online
– which is harder than it sounds.

Yoast SEO is available in free and paid
memberships depending on the features you need.

With Handsome Checkout you can create ClickFunnels-like checkout pages for WooCommerce

Checkout is perhaps the most important
step to your dropshipping business but is often forgotten about when
setting up your store. While getting traffic is important and getting
things to look good can draw in more customers, it doesn’t matter
if they don’t buy from you. Handsome Checkout does one thing
exceptionally well – makes it easier for you to get paid.

Handsome Checkout’s WooCommerce
plugin expedites checkout, allowing you to remove the
cart-to-checkout process and replace it with one-page checkout on any
page of your choosing. Embed it on your landing page, sales funnel,
product page, or anywhere else to increase conversions by shortening
the time it takes to checkout. You can also take control over your
checkout fields with custom fields, and add an upsell at checkout to
increase your average order value.

You’ll also be able to track
abandoned carts to recoup lost sales, finding out what they were
buying, what stage they left, and following up with an email to make
an offer to return.

Handsome Checkout is a paid plugin that
requires a subscription for use, but you can get a 14-day trial for
just $1 to give it a try before you buy.

Selling more products is useful for all
kinds of businesses, and dropshipping is no exception. If you’re
able to sell more per customer, you can increase the profitability of
your store, spend more on marketing, and grow yourself more quickly
without investing more.

One Click Upsells is an incredibly
simple WordPress plugin for Dropshipping and eCommerce stores that
allows you to create upsell offers. These offers appear after the
customer has already entered their information, providing a
“one-click” offer that uses the same payment information to add
on the upsell. If you craft a solid offer, you’ll be able to take
advantage of FOMO to get them to press the button and earn yourself
more sales than you would have without the plugin.

To start earning more, you can simply
create a funnel, choose who to send the offer to, and specify the
details of the deal. Once it is live, the dashboard provides
information about its success at a glance, allowing you to further
tailor the offer for more conversions.

One Click Upsells is a paid plugin that
also comes with a 14-day trial for $1, and then is available monthly
or yearly afterwards,

Dropshipping can be an incredibly
effective way to earn money online, but only if you know what you’re
doing. Owning an online business is all about making the most of the
advantages the internet offers – mainly information. Unlike
physical retail, online sales have a path to follow, behavior to
analyze, and overall more information for you to analyze to make your
dropshipping business more successful.

MonsterInsights helps business owners
like you collect information about your business so that you can
optimize its performance, conversions, and of course, sales. The
dashboard provides a great overview of your entire business right on
your WordPress dashboard.

Using information from your website, it
can keep track of your web traffic and where it came from to tell you
whether your advertising is working. You can also find out your
website’s conversion rate, what your average sales are, and which
landing pages are performing better in A/B testing.

MonsterInsights requires a monthly or
yearly membership, and includes 5 or 25 licenses per membership plus
updates & support.

Customers like to know exactly what
they should expect to pay, but if your website is in USD while they
use EUR, there’s the potential for a misunderstanding that could
cost you a sale. The fix? Currency conversion pre-checkout.

WooCommerce’s currency switcher allows customers to change the currency of your dropshipping store to their preferred currency. Prices will be automatically converted on the front end, and combining it with a translator can further unlock your international sales.

One of the best parts of dropshipping
with WooCommerce is that you can sell to anyone just about anywhere.
As most suppliers are from international countries anyway, it means
that shipping worldwide is easy enough for you to do. This means you
can reach a wide range of audiences – including those who don’t
speak your own.

With the WPML translator plugin, you
can automatically translate parts of your store, pages, and posts to
your visitor’s native language. This helps to provide greater
trustworthiness and a more informed customer, which aids conversion.

WPML requires a membership to use, with a specific package for eCommerce stores that provides translations for the most important parts of your store.

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In 2009 I started contributing to Wordpress and couple years later built my first WooCommerce store. And now I am helping WooCommerce storeowners all over the world make more money with their stores. Wordpress Problem Solving Expert, founder of BogdanFix.